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Female on the Beach

  • 1955
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  • 1h 37min
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6.4/10
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Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, and Jan Sterling in Female on the Beach (1955)
Film NoirCrimeDramaMysteryRomanceThriller

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaMoving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.

  • Dirección
    • Joseph Pevney
  • Guionistas
    • Robert Hill
    • Richard Alan Simmons
    • Albert Zugsmith
  • Elenco
    • Joan Crawford
    • Jeff Chandler
    • Jan Sterling
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.4/10
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    • Dirección
      • Joseph Pevney
    • Guionistas
      • Robert Hill
      • Richard Alan Simmons
      • Albert Zugsmith
    • Elenco
      • Joan Crawford
      • Jeff Chandler
      • Jan Sterling
    • 38Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 24Opiniones de los críticos
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    Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford
    • Lynn Markham
    Jeff Chandler
    Jeff Chandler
    • Drummond Hall
    Jan Sterling
    Jan Sterling
    • Amy Rawlinson
    Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Kellaway
    • Osbert Sorenson
    Judith Evelyn
    Judith Evelyn
    • Eloise Crandall
    Charles Drake
    Charles Drake
    • Police Lieutenant Galley
    Natalie Schafer
    Natalie Schafer
    • Queenie Sorenson
    Stuart Randall
    Stuart Randall
    • Frankovitch
    Marjorie Bennett
    Marjorie Bennett
    • Mrs. Murchison
    Nan Boardman
    • Mrs. Gomez
    • (sin créditos)
    Ed Fury
    Ed Fury
    • Roddy
    • (sin créditos)
    Helene Heigh
    Helene Heigh
    • Cleaning Woman
    • (sin créditos)
    James Hyland
    • Cop
    • (sin créditos)
    Judy Pine
    • Woman at Beach
    • (sin créditos)
    Jack Reitzen
    Jack Reitzen
    • Boat Attendant
    • (sin créditos)
    Romo Vincent
    Romo Vincent
    • Pete Gomez
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    • Dirección
      • Joseph Pevney
    • Guionistas
      • Robert Hill
      • Richard Alan Simmons
      • Albert Zugsmith
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    5rosscinema

    Campy Crawford film

    This is a case where an aging Joan Crawford was just about done with good leading parts and the studios were only offering her "B" level scripts like this. Films were beginning to change and Crawford was not to far off from the last phase in her career. This story begins with an older drunken woman named Eloise Crandall (Judith Evelyn) chasing after her boytoy Drummond Hall (Jeff Chandler) but when she goes onto the balcony she falls over and dies. Was she pushed? Lynn Markham (Crawford) moves into the house and soon meets her neighbors like Drummond and the older couple that he lives with (Natalie Schafer and Cecil Kellaway). Their is also a nosy detective hanging around named Lieutenant Galley (Charles Drake) who thinks that Eloise may have been married. Drummond tries very hard to get Lynn to like him but she's very cold natured. One night she's lonely and horny and makes up with Drummond and they become close. Lynn finds the diary of Eloise and finds out that the neighbors are card sharks and that she was set up for her money. Also, the real estate agent Amy Rawlinson (Jan Sterling) is secretly in love with Drummond and Lieutenant Galley makes very obvious advances on Lynn! Lots of melodrama in this story and it runs like a soap opera. Chandlers character is such a pushy bum! Two seconds after meeting Crawford he is in her house making breakfast and putting his hands on her. He paws her like a Tijuana whore on a Friday night! And I thought it was funny that six foot four Chandler would come onto a woman that stands five foot in heels. Crawford is a tough woman in this film and really cracks Chandler a couple of hard ones. The dialogue is over written like when he asks her how she likes her coffee and she retorts with "Alone". Not a bad little subplot involving Sterling either. She's pretty hot looking and you have to wonder why Chandler was never attracted to her. The one scene that stands out for me is when Chandler is on Crawford like a grizzly bear and she cracks him and he responds by tearing her dress off! Rape, anyone? But of course this just turns her on. Overly melodramatic and it does have its share of laughs but at the same time you can't stop watching it. You can credit Crawfords screen appeal for that. Silly film is worth a peek at Crawford entering a part in her career that was winding down from serious roles.
    7tamstrat

    Trashy fun

    I have to say, Joan Crawford is THE queen of camp without a doubt. This trashy little gem showcases Joan at her campy best in this her midlife career.

    She plays Lynne Markham, a rich widow who moves to the beach house she has never seen that was owned by her late husband. She moves into a mess, the previous tenant, a lonely rich woman who couldn't handle her booze or the sleazy beach bum, Drummond played by iron jawed, steel haired Jeff Chandler, died under mysterious circumstances. Did she commit suicide or did she have a little help?

    Joan emotes shamelessly in this tawdry soap. She swoons, flares her nostrils, almost passes out as Drummond savagely paws her, this borders on rape and Joan's character absolutely LOVES IT!!!! She spits out such classic lines as "You're about as friendly as a suction pump" with a completely straight face. What a hoot!!!! The storyline is a camp classic, the rich, lonely widows who succumb to the wiles of Drummond and the con artist neighbors, played by Natalie Schaefer and Cecil Kellaway and the beautiful Realtor played by Jan Sterling all mix together for a movie to die for. It is a must see for all Crawford fans. At this stage of her career she had become a phenomenon, a steel rose, the makeup and hair becoming more surreal and harsh the older she got, amazing, transfixing. You have to see it to believe it.
    6moonspinner55

    Older woman falls for beach boy; a lost Crawford heavy-breather...

    Glossy trash has wealthy, beach front-living Joan Crawford wooed by shady gigolo Jeff Chandler. Low-brow fun, an adaptation of Robert Hill's play "The Besieged Heart", with steamy clinches and page after page of florid dialogue. Director Joseph Pevney seems to be a perfect match for Crawford: he's obviously tough on the unyielding actress and doesn't let her get away with many "Mildred Pierce"-isms. Crawford also seems to have been personally swayed by hunky Chandler, who doesn't let her hog the spotlight. However, neither star is guided with a trace of self-effacing humor, which turns the proceedings into straight-faced camp. Some of the lines are howlers. **1/2 from ****
    7wayjack

    Where did this movie go?!?

    I've seen this film exactly twice on TV late at night. If it isn't in print anywhere (it doesn't appear to be currently) it should be. Joan is at her campy, over-the-top best in this bizarre story of a woman, her love interest, and a couple truly strange neighbors (one of whom would later become "Lovey" on Gilligan's Island). The dialog alone is enough to make it worth seeing. Jeff Chandler is at his studly best too. So much of Joan's work is out on DVD and hopefully this film will be too some day. If you're a Crawford fan and you've never seen Female on the Beach (get a load of that title!) you'll be thrilled by this seemingly "lost" movie. You can't beat a film with a line like, "I wouldn't have you if you were hung with diamonds upside down!"
    8bmacv

    Crawford plays Crawford in self-referential cautionary tale

    Few case studies of Hollywood stardom rival Joan Crawford's in their curiosity. A certified star from the time of last silent movies and the first talkies, she fell from favor more than once only to be restored in ever newer incarnations, largely through the boundless reservoirs of her will.

    And if there is an era that defines the Crawford that we remember most vividly, it's the decade-plus, from her Oscar-winning turn as Mildred Pierce in 1945 through her last `really top' movie, The Story of Esther Costello in 1957. In her valiant assault, as she moved into middle age, against time's winged chariot, she had vehicles built around her that helped define the canons of camp but retain a fascination that transcends camp. This dozen or so includes: Humoresque, Flamingo Road, her second Possessed, The Damned Don't Cry, Harriet Craig, This Woman Is Dangerous, Sudden Fear, Torch Song, Queen Bee and Autumn Leaves. Though we may howl at some of them (or at parts of them, for they range from rather good to quite dreadful), we're always aware – at times discomfitingly so – of the human drama that underlies and links them all: the Joan Crawford story.

    In Female on the Beach, she plays a recent widow taking up residence in the coastal California home her wealthy husband owned. Her arrival proves ill-starred, for a broken railing on its deck marks the spot where its previous tenant – another woman battling age and isolation – plunged to her death. Did she jump or fall – or was she pushed? It unfolds that she had fallen prey to a youngish beach bum (Jeff Chandler) operated by a pair of older con-artists (Cecil Kellaway and Natalie Schafer); Crawford is targeted as their next mark.

    Obsessively guarding her privacy, however, she proves to be a tough nut to crack. Her too familiar realtor (Jan Sterling) is swiftly shown the door when she makes the mistake of taking Crawford for granted. And Chandler, turning up unbidden in Crawford's kitchen one morning, encounters that same rough hide; asked how she likes her coffee, she icily replies `Alone.'

    But tanned muscles and prematurely grey temples do not count for nothing in affluent oceanside communities, so Chandler slowly wins over the armored Crawford. But the course of true love never did run smooth, as the Bard of Avon warns us. Crawford just happens to find the dead woman's indiscreet diary (it's hidden away behind a loose brick in the fireplace!), a sad yarn of being cheated in card games and bilked for loans by the larcenous old couple while being strung along by Chandler.

    No fool she, Crawford hands the gigolo his walking papers. But then she sinks into a sump of liquor and self-loathing, staggering around waiting the phone to ring like a torch-carrier out of a Dorothy Parker story. Finally, of course, Chandler does call and, better yet, wants to marry her! But fate has a few final cards to deal, including an uninstalled fuel pump Crawford had bought for Chandler's boat....

    That staple of genre cinema, the woman-in-jeopardy thriller, generally features dithery, hysterical young things as straw victims. Crawford in jeopardy, by contrast, turns all the conventions upside down. The coquettish bulldozer she has constructed of herself at this menopausal juncture in her life, with her face as fiercely painted as a Kabuki mask, seems designed to repel – to crush – any threats. (Of course, like most such postures of domination and intimidation, It's a construct of fear – her fears of falling short as a serious actress, as a mother, as a woman; fears of aging and no longer being able to lure her directors and costars between the sheets; fears of not mastering her own unachievable goals.) The facade of control and self-sufficiency proves all the more arresting when it comes under siege from the cumbersome twists and turns of these situations held over from nineteenth-century melodrama.

    Hence, Female on the Beach and its ilk. An indomitable woman of a certain age flies solo into the perils of mid-life, only to triumph against all odds. That was the life Crawford was living at mid-century, the life reflected in these films, by turns appalling and transfixing. Not since the Brothers Grimm has such a string of cautionary tales been issued.

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    • Trivia
      Shortly before the film was made, Joan Crawford was dating the president of Universal Pictures, who offered her the role. She also was given her choice of leading man, and she selected Jeff Chandler.
    • Errores
      The type of doorbell that is featured prominently in Crawford's beach house, with four large chime tubes, in reality makes a very different sound than the doorbell sound effect that is heard on the soundtrack whenever the bell is rung.
    • Citas

      Drummond Hall: How do you like your coffee?

      Lynn Markham: Alone!

      Drummond Hall: Strong coffee.

    • Créditos curiosos
      The main actors names, and the film's title are washed away by ocean waves.
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 27 de julio de 1955 (Francia)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Das Haus am Strand
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Balboa Beach, California, Estados Unidos
    • Productora
      • Universal International Pictures (UI)
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 37 minutos
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      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.85 : 1

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